Bio

I am a PhD student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program in Iowa State University. Research-wise, I am passionate about promoting sustainable agriculture from the soil microbiome perspective. In particular, I am interested in improving the detection of microbial functional genes that are involved in the important soil processes, such as nitrogen cycling. Previously, I developed MetaFunPrimer, a command line-based pipeline in Bash and Python to design primers for high-throughput qPCR. My common work involves analyzing sequencing data such as 16S rRNA sequencing, metagenome sequencing, and RNA sequencing, data analysis and visualization. Outside of my research, I’m interested in data science, programming, and learning new technologies.

Education

Iowa State University | Ames, IA

PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | Aug 2018 - Present

Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN

MS in Animal Sciences | August 2016 - Jul 2018

University of Florida | Gainesville, FL

Exchange student | August 2015 - May 2016

Huazhong Agricultural University | Wuhan, China

BS in Animal Sciences | September 2012 - Jun 2016

Experience

Freelance | Live Entertainment Consultant | August 2018 - Present

Cercle | Producer | August 2018 - Present

National Public Radio | Producer | May 2015 - July 2018

NME Magazine | Editor | July 2014 - July 2016

Iceland Symphony Orchestra | Cellist | October 2009 - June 2014